People sometimes get so fired up about these sorts of things that they forget to think rationally. The old “you’re wrong because you disagree with me!” syndrome has been popping up a lot more these days. I’m just glad that some people can see through the anger to the broken logic underneath.
Category: politics
Dumb Dumb Dumb
I remember, just after the Madrid train bombing, how people (well, politicians) were talking about turning off cell phone networks during a terrorist attack. I also remember thinking about how stupid that would be.
School Controls Speech
“It’s true that under the Court’s Establishment Clause caselaw the government generally may not itself engage in religious speech, nor may it give preferential treatment to religious speech. But this ban on government preferences for religious speech doesn’t require or authorize discrimination against private religious speech. Such discrimination is itself unconstitutional; it violates the Free Speech Clause, and in my view the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause as well (though that’s less clear than the Free Speech Clause violation).”
Why do So Many Libertarians Blog?
A very interesting take on the blogging situation, and libertarian-ism (is that even a word?). It certainly fits in my case!
Homeland Security & Men with Bloody Chainsaws
Apparently someone carrying a bunch of weapons (swords, knives, and a bloody chainsaw) was let across the border (the weapons were confiscated, though – thank goodness!).